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Curiosities of history: Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880

by: Wheildon, William W. (William Willder), 1805-1892

Publication date: 1880

Topics: Boston (Mass.) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham

Collection: umassdartmouthclairetcarney; blc; americana

Contributor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Language: English

x, 11-141 p. :

Topography of Boston.-The public ferries.-The Boston cornfields.-Puritan government.-Narragansett Indians.-Names of places, streets, etc.-Persecution of the Quakers.-First newspaper in America.-Curious Boston lectures.-Remarkable proclamations, 1774-5.-Popular Puritan literature.-Revolutionary proclamations.-Curiosities of the market